the door to the "other world" was opened by the royal scientist as he fell into the "mist"/void.
a spider found itself way through the crack.
the lonely spider saw the monsters in despair. they were trapped underground longing to see the sun.
seeing the warmth of company and their kindness... their LOVE. the lonely spider became envious. for it could never fully teach beyond it's realm.
it could not bring them to the surface... but it COULD bring the surface to THEM.
it began to spin a web of lies. a world filled with their hopes and dreams of freedom. a world where they could all be happy. and they wouldn't have to be alone anymore. they'd have a family.
they wove the thread of fate itself around slowly trapping more and more souls in it. sewing buttons on their eyes as a claim over their souls.
it was no longer lonely.
it had spun itself a home. an eternal paradise.
but something from the [mist] severed the link.
just then the monster started to tlsee the terrifying web of lies it had woven... putting the lives of his people on puppet strong for it's amusement.
a game was proposed.
a gamble.
if he won, they'd have to set everyone lose. if they won he'd let them own his soul again.
of course he knew their game was rigged. they'd never let him go even if he won... so he gave it a twist.
that if he could KILL everyone before they turned them into puppets then they had NO CHOICE.
their web would unwind and their power would weaken.
it wasn't like he could escape. this world was beyond saving. but at least he could give the a death in free spirit.
after getting rid of all the souls they'd be weak enough for him to kill...
of course they knew this. but it's so rare that prey like this fights back. being the one on the run... they miss sentiment. and this game is much more fun than they thought.
they really REALLY like this one... maybe even if he loses they wouldn't take his soul... no. it'd be a shame to sew buttons on those beautiful vengeful eyes.
Once again tiktok has blessed me with crappy quality so once again I’m curing tumblr with better quality
Honestly this was actually supposed to be better but my device crashed 18 times so I gave up,
Y’all r gonna have to suffer with mediocre (,:
Also I refuse, vehemently, to draw Jugment Hall’s windows
Every time I do it takes hours and never looks good
So you’re just gonna have sun rays that look like they’re from a beginner blender user who hasn’t figured out how lighting works yet
Also the actual images for y’all
(FunFact: I love being difficult, I didn’t resize any of these frames, i actually just redrew all the zoom in shots instead of actually zooming in (,: (except one cause my device deleted 4 hours of work and if I had to redraw it again I would cry)
Dust is my second fave sans in Nightmares gang (Horror will always be my first)
you guys i can’t take this anymore i need to release steam from this pot of killer and dust thoughts that’s on the stove
listen. if you don’t know by now. one of my favorite things to do is bridge narratives between fanon ideas, and canon truths hehe
Killer and Dust. The accepted dynamic is basically killer being a pestering little shit and dust being over it.
THATS GREAT ON ITS OWN it’s funny etc
but think about their ACTUAL characters for a moment. they are two sides of the same coin.
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i don’t want to hear any of that old fandom “they are literally the same” shhhhh. nuh uh dear friend, they commuted the same (general) action💥
their motives and situations are very different however! which is important when it comes to understanding a character
They both played into an opposite role in their world if you ask me.
Killer partners with chara, filling the role of the player. he’s a lot like flowey actually.
(in killers world, while he is still a pawn of this sick game, he gets manipulated after all, he has taken on the ROLE of the player. everyone else are the pawns.)
dust is against the anomaly of dusttale, which is that worlds player.
dust is a pawn. a pawn that is defying the player of the game
(in the same way that killer is still pawned, dust still uses his fellow “pawns” as a means to “win” the game, meaning he’s also playing)
(but again, i’m speaking role wise)
Killer and Dust’s dynamic doesn’t have to just be haha funny, it has some actual merit and potential to their characters.
Killer is constantly looking for new forms of entertainment. something new. he’ll get bored, and if he’s bored he’ll have to look at himself. killer is very much a character representing disassociation avoidance and to an extent, escapism (huh. like someone playing a video game?)
Of COURSE he’s gonna poke at people. it’s INTERESTING. it gets a REACTION. he gets to have that small power trip of being in control, after feeling like he lost control this is something that’s probably addictive to killer.
meanwhile dust…well. killer acts like his own anomaly in a way. he prods at him, toys with him, he’s leering and he takes pleasure in any reaction dust gives. dust probably would resent this feeling without really knowing why. he feels like some toy, and he’d probably be inclined to even interpret a genuine interaction this way.
this honestly makes dusts inclination to shut off or dull down any emotion make more sense. be as unremarkable as possible, and you’ll be left alone, right?
isn’t that…kind of what sans does? he’ll repeat same lines of dialogue and such when he reallyyy doesn’t have to. he’s being uninteresting. (and no he doesn’t need to remember everything magically for that to be possible. in game he will poke fun at past conversations and dialogue so he’s clearly aware enough)
Killer wants a response, so dust doesn’t give one.
killer wants control and feels like this is a challenge, dust feels cornered and defensive
if they had existed in the same world, it would have been killer vs dust in the end either way.
it’s a big old game of cat and mouse until someone snaps. they need to be given the opportunity to understand their similarities
even in an interpretation where they are in a healthier relationship, in whatever capacity, i think these mindsets would be conflict they may have….
to killer , on one hand he may be OFFENDED by his lack of response. he may be EXCITED, it’s a CHALLENGE. he might take dusts resignation as a sign of submission, which would give killer a HIGE power trip.
he might. genuinely just be trying to have fun?
it could be ENTIRELY lighthearted, and it’s still…rather toxic, considering where that mindset branched from
and we know dust won’t be inclined to say anything. he probably doesn’t understand his own feelings to be frank💀 he just feels gross and intimidated and cornered so he shuts off and sees killer as oppressive , and grows resentful regardless of intent, as these feelings only feed into his crippling self hatred anyways
crimson is looking for a fight(friendly game of numbers! if your ho reaches 0 you lose!) with metatheater.
they burst out the door challenging him to a game. they may look like a whimp but trust me they are VERY agile.
granted they aren't the same "human" from his au... but they come from a very similar place. they want to know what's different about him than thei former nemesis.
does he accept their game?
(crimson is my version of dusttale player for context if you wanna add some vengeful spice)
*They need it, PAPS need it to be happy*
MDPAU Bad Sanses Belongs To Me
General Lunatic Story - Reference
Previous Asks-Next Asks
The first character with a fully completed backstory!
PLAYER is on the left, while Anemone is the human/disguise on the right.
Just to be clear: This is not the player from UNDERPLAYER. To be clear, I will refer to Restricted’s player as “PLAYER”, and the one from UNDERLAYER as “Player”.
However, this PLAYER is very similar to the Player from UNDERPLAYER.
They came from the same timeline: in fact, Player currently stuck during in Undertale is PLAYER’s twin. While they were back home, Player had vanished. The only thing they left behind was Undertale, up and running on a computer. So PLAYER struck out on a mission- they had long ago shared their twin’s fascination with Undertale, but they had always appreciated the creativity behind the fandom and their alternative routes. Curiosity led them to program themselves into the game, although this time they were more successful than Player. They were able to access all the alternate timelines and program themselves into that, vowing to get a “Perfect Ending” for their sibling.
They first stumbled upon Underfell, where they adopted their iconic red-striped look after UF! Frisk suggested it. They moved over to UnderSwap, but they became dissatisfied with just following US! Chara through the Underground. They killed US! Chara, shattered their soul so that they wouldn’t be able to interfere, and modified the code so that the characters recognized PLAYER as the eighth fallen human. They went through the True Pacifist, Pacifist, Neutral, and Genocide Routes of UnderSwap, then they coded themselves from UnderSwap to HorrorTale, performing the same feats and then moving from HorrorTale to DreamTale, Storyshift, Storyshift: Facing Demons, DustTale, and eventually all of the timelines. They were becoming dissatisfied and increasingly frustrated and volatile with having experienced all the endings and interactions, and still not yet achieving an ending they deemed to be perfect.
InkShift Chara met them as PLAYER was in the midst of disassembling and reassembling their code for other timelines. Having had sensed the true amount of LOVE within their soul, InkShift called upon Atonement. (An OC designed by Tarylem: Atonement takes on the form of an unknown Sans AU, although in actuality he is a force created to dispense justice, and is present everywhere, not just in Undertale and Deltarune.)
Atonement managed to take PLAYER by surprise. He stripped them of their coding abilities and tore out their soul.
InkShift hid their soul within the only alternate universe PLAYER had not visited, forcing the timeline to jam it into a desperate host to stabilize the sudden power transfusion. Almond became PLAYER’s new host, as InkShift Chara had unknowingly given PLAYER reign over Almond and the created body (Anemone), allowing them to switch between the two at will.
This sketch took a while, mainly because I wasn’t able to think of a pose for PLAYER/Anemone.
The others won’t take as long, for certain.
-ASRIEL.
edit: eeee. Rereading this lore’s making me all giddy again- I really want to start coding the basics, but I’m not sure what program to run it with- GameMaker Studio runs on a jumble of C++ and C#, so if something happens to the program I won’t know what to do. :( I’m only good with HTML, but if HTML’s not available JavaScript’s second, although I’m really slow with JS. .-.
But if that’s the only option left, then it’ll be better than nothing- Toby Fox used GameMaker Studio for Undertale’s battle system, as well as GMS 2 for Deltarune.
Seems like a good candidate.